With Americans recycling more and more every day, many municipalities have begun using advanced, multimillion-dollar machines to sort through the deluge of soup cans, beer bottles and newspapers.

This trash can that sorts your refuse will soon be in use in Pittsburgh. Increasingly, when you find a trash can in a public place it has at least two openings—one for trash and one for recyclables.

ASU is enhancing its efforts to improve landfill diversion with a new type of waste-sorting system installed last week. With the amount of foot traffic through the MU, it was necessary to find a way ...

Sorting trash into the right categories is pretty much a daily bother. Who hasn’t stood there in front of the two, three, five or more bins (depending on your area and country), pondering which bin it ...

GeekWire is putting its own HQ2 in Pittsburgh for the month of February 2018 — reporting on the people, technologies and ideas transforming the industrial city into an innovation powerhouse. by Monica ...

At its November 3 meeting, the SPSA Board of Directors unanimously approved the contract, which invests $200 million in waste ...

For all the advances made by robot companies like Boston Dynamics, we're still a long way from having robots living among humans and performing assistive tasks in our day-to-day lives. Google's parent ...

For the second time in 10 years, the city of Montgomery is trying to upend recycling, and they’re doing it without separate bins. Montgomery no longer asks residents to separate their trash and ...

When off-base residents don’t sort garbage properly, the mistakes can damage Japanese sorting machines, and most times Japanese trash haulers won’t pick up items not bagged or sorted properly. For ...

Metro and local recycling agencies are asking people to throw away plastic bags because they jam sorting machines and delay work at recycling centers. Hillsboro Far West Recycling center pulls out ...